They just told you. You have two realistic options (sorry, third parties are a fantasy under the current American electoral system). One of those options will permit and even tepidly support genocide in Palestine, the other will actively and eagerly encourage it. You pick the lesser of those two evils, and then you fight like hell against them until you get the results you’re actually looking for.

One of the smartest things I’ve ever heard about Western liberal democracy is this; “Voting is when you get to choose your opponent.” You’re not endorsing a platform, you’re arranging the battlefield.

At the end of the day, Trump will be somewhat worse for the people of Palestine than Biden will, and much, much worse for everyone in America. It might feel icky voting for Biden, but if you truly care about the lives of the people in Gaza, it is the best choice you can make under the options available to you.

Will Trump getting into power make things better for people in Palestine?

Yep. And this, right here, is a perfect example of “things that should go without saying still need to be said.”

People should know that bondage and sado-masochism are not the same thing, and yet so many don’t.

It should go without saying, but unfortunately there’s a lot in the kink space that should go without saying, but still has to be said, over and and over, because a lot of people come into the scene via entry points like 50 Shades that are almost antithetical to the idea of safe consensual kink.

Also, fair warning, the “padding” on most padded cuffs won’t do shit to stop them from digging in. Fabric compresses against metal, with the result that you still have an unyielding and relatively small point of contact. A good safe bondage knot will spread the point of restraint across several inches of skin, so the pressure at any one point is minimal.

Shibari You Can Use has some excellent guides to safe restraint, if you want to learn more.

Only if your sub is cool with it, but they need to know going in that either option is likely to chafe and dig into the sensitive skin around their wrists, possibly even causing bleeding depending on how much they strain against them. Definitely not recommended for a first time if you don’t know what your own responses to stimuli are likely to be.

Much better to use a soft hemp rope, around a quarter inch thick or more, and make sure you’re binding with safe knots. You can’t just go in with any old naval knot or whatever; there are specific bindings that are safe for use on people; look them up. Always check your bindings to ensure a safe amount of slack (you should be able to easily slide a finger around any part of the wrist or ankle for proper circulation) and always make sure you have a set of EMT clothing shears handy in case something goes wrong. No, kitchen scissors are not good enough; EMT shears have serration, and specially shaped blades, in order to cut through heavy fabric or bindings easily.

Also please don’t use duct tape, there’s literally no way to have it bind but also have sufficient slack. You will impede circulation. Just a terrible idea.

1.1.1.1 gang represent.

Me, ignoring my problems

They’re presumably going to be doing this live. If someone manages to hack into the component that feeds text in…

Ironically, my favorite story from that collection is a hundred word horror story about Santa.

Huh… Maybe OP is just really offended on St Nick’s behalf?

Quantity of recalls combined with the quantity of quality control issues, combined with the price-tag.

For that kind of money, you generally expect something that went through some road testing. And it’s not like these are issues that took years to develop. Stuff like the problems with the foot pedals should have come up during their testing… Assuming they did any.

Calling this a startup is being excessively generous. Startups are meant to eventually be viable.

This is a scam. The product just feeds your queries into ChatGPT and spits out the response. The backend tech they’ve described flat out does not exist. It’s all smoke and mirrors.

Coffeezilla did a really good video about it

More importantly, why is the gay room so small? You can barely get any gay in there.

Is this a question?

For the people who don’t know the answer? Yes.

Not everything you see is intended for your consumption. Let people enjoy learning things.

Shattered Horizon. It was awesome.

I’ll settle for fines being substantially bigger than the profit obtained from the crime.

It’s specifically affecting people in certain areas of NB. Far more likely the cause is tied back to Irving in some way.

It wouldn’t kill Tesla, per se. A company’s stock price only really matters insofar as it helps them to carry debt. The company doesn’t actually directly gain or lose money based on the stock price. What it affects, primarily, is the shareholders of the company.

Well… Fair enough. Ain’t no arguing with that.

You forgot “Tells advertisers to go fuck themselves”